Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sergeant Hubert M. Sluss of Bristol, Va., a lean, thrice-wounded World War II paratrooper, was "pusher" for a stick of 20 paratroopers on the left side of the plane. He was last in line, and it was his duty to quarterback the jump. Luckily, all the jumpers in the plane had already "stood up and hooked up" (i.e., fastened their parachutes to the static lines in the plane). When Sluss heard the windshield break with a sound "like two cars hitting," he wasted no time. Shouting, pushing, struggling uphill as the bucking, lurching plane headed down...
Sergeant Jessie Arrington, a husky (6 ft. 2 in., 190 Ibs.) Negro paratrooper from Newport News, Va., was aboard the plane to check the static line and equipment and did not intend to jump. He stayed behind "yelling to everybody we had the long bell" until all jumpers were clear. When he looked out the door, he saw that the plane was only 150 feet from the earth. He was wearing a chute with a hand-operated ripcord. "I looked at the ground and I knew there was no one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two, one-thousand-three-that...
From Williamsburg, Va.. where they had met in special session, the House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church issued a pastoral letter to their 2,545,000 church members reviewing "the state of the church today...
Time for a Change. In Newport News, Va., looking for a buyer, Jim Elliott described his truck in a Press ad: ". . . Perfect condition except rear end roars and grinds to deafening, nerve-racking extent. Leaks grease . . . uses oil excessively, engine knocks . . . erratic steering, no stability on road . . . brakes grab, water leaks out. Will sell as is-no guarantee...
JOSEPH H. COURTNEY Morgantown, W. Va...